As we discussed previously, Lead User Lab is a new initiative by LEGO to capture project and product ideas from the LEGO fan community, evaluate their potential, and bring them to life in new ways. Since the initial announcement back in June, the Lead User Lab team has been assembled, and they held their first […] Read more
LEGO News & Updates
If you already got the 2019 LEGO Christmas Catalog, you may have noticed on the second page that LEGO is running a program for the holiday season called LEGO Build to Give. This is the second year LEGO is running the program. Last year, they were able to donate more than half a million LEGO […] Read more
Hope you all had a great Halloween! With the beginning of November, we are now officially in the holiday season. This is a great time of the year for both solo projects and for building together with friends and family. And of course, it’s also the beginning of the holiday shopping season, which means retailers […] Read more
Happy Halloween! It has been a tradition in the past few years that LEGO fan Jason Allemann, (a.k.a. JK Brickworks) builds some kind of candy dispensing contraption from LEGO bricks to interact with kids who come to his door. In 2016, Jason built a simple Halloween Candy Thrower using the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics set. […] Read more
There is a new contest on LEGO Ideas, this time celebrating the new Land Rover. Please note that you do not have to own the #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover to participate in this contest. You can use LEGO Digital Designer, or just build your own Land Rover of any size. The details of the […] Read more
A few days ago, I shared some really cute Halloween pumpkins and Gingerbread houses by LEGO fan Chad Parker (see: LEGO Halloween Pumpkins & Gingerbread Houses). Since then, Chad also built a Halloween version of the newly released #10267 LEGO Creator Gingerbread House. Check it out below and let me know how you like it. […] Read more
(Written by Geneva – gid617) If you’ve been following my LEGO set mash-up series, then you know that I’ve been combining LEGO sets from different themes and building amusement park rides (see links at the end of this post). Naturally, the next thing to do is to combine the mash-ups in one large LEGO amusement […] Read more
(Written by Mark H. Avery) In Learning From Model Train Layouts – Part 1, we discussed some basic tips and tricks LEGO train fans can learn from traditional model train layouts. And now that we covered the basics, let’s talk about some of the finishing touches. You’ve built or bought tables. You’ve laid your tracks […] Read more
With Halloween coming up, it’s time to build some LEGO Halloween creations! I recently came across a very talented LEGO builder on Facebook named Chad Parker. Last year, Chad built a series of gingerbread houses for the holiday season, and this year he decided to build a series of pumpkin houses for Halloween. Below, I […] Read more
(Written by Geneva – gid617) If you read my previous articles in this series, you know that I have been working on several LEGO amusement park mash-up projects by combining sets from different themes (see links at the end of this post). So far, we discussed mixing sets from LEGO Friends and LEGO Ninjago, LEGO […] Read more
